Salah Shehade

Salah Shehade (24 February 1953-22 July 2002) was the leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades and a member of Hamas. He was killed in 2002.

Biography
Shehade was born in Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip in 1953, and in 1987 was one of the founding members of the Hamas terrorist network. After the death of Yahya Ayyash in 1996 he became a top leader of Hamas, and led suicide attacks against Israel as the commander of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

Death
In 2002, the Israeli Defense Force sent an F-16 fighter jet to kill Shehade. The plane dropped a one-ton bomb, killing Shehade and fifteen people. The assassination was condemned by Spain, the United Kingdom, United States, and the Arab League, and the pilot and others involved in the assassination were labeled as war criminals for the killing of fourteen innocents.